Muirkirk Road, Catford.

Muirkirk Road, ah yes I remember it well and the two shops you mention. I lived in Sangley Road with my brothers and sisters and very often went to the fish and chip shop in Muirkirk

I remember the shoe menders shop and the smell of that leather. Ahh. It was a wonderful place. We always had our shoes mended there in the fifties, I remember next door (or next but one) was a bakers. They sold those miniature Hovis loaves, just out of the oven. Heaven. Opposite, towards Sangley Road, there was a butchers shop where I used to work on Saturdays doing a bicycle round. And on the corner of the road opposite the shoe mender there was a florist. My dad told me he bought flowers for mum there on his way home the day he returned from the war. I visited the same street a year ago. Nothing there left to stir the memories, everything gone. So sad. I too remember the chippy, a regular stop on the way home from the "Pictures" at the ABC. There was also an ironmongers shop called Beales in Muirkirk Road. What a joy it was to go in there, the smell of soap, parafin and the thousands of other things they sold. Memories. Memories.